Gavin Bryars Quotes

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.

Craft is part of the creative process.

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.